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		<title>Integrating hypervisors &#8211; we need a secret sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/08/07/integrating-hypervisors-we-need-a-secret-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hypervisor is the new critical area of focus in the cloud. Enterprises cannot afford to adopt a &#8220;single hypervisor solution fits all&#8221; approach yet they do need to  understand and manage the many problems and issues that this outcome exposes. Early virtualization adopters will have a large VMware ESX estate largely accomodating the massive unstructured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Data Migration Software</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/31/enterprise-data-migration-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moves & Migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week I am in Marthas Vineyard visiting with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group. For a few weeks Steve has been telling me about an Enterprise Windows Data Migration tool called AutoMove from AutoVirt. So I have been looking at the details it is pretty good. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM XIV feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/17/ibm-xiv-feedback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent most of the day taking calls and answering mails from Hot Aisle readers who have an opinion about XIV. One of the most interesting was from an  IBM insider who tells me that he has a ton of great salespeople, customers who love the product when they buy it but no marketing support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you an XIV Customer?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/16/are-you-an-xiv-customer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent article on IBM&#8217;s XIV product has created a real torrent of calls and mails from competitors, analysts and others in the industry saying I am completely barking mad and that IBM storage (particularly XIV) is a joke. It is true that IBM have been really bad at communicating their storage message and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is the simplest ideas that are always best</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/14/it-is-the-simplest-ideas-that-are-always-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my friend and colleague Peter Hopton gave me the neatest piece of software I have seen in a long time. Software that knows if you are sitting in front of your computer or not, and if you are not shuts down the display to save energy. As soon as you sit down again, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC, NetApp and Data Domain</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/07/09/emc-netapp-and-data-domain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s old news now but the EMC acquision of Data Domain is big news in the IT Industry (despite a week been a very long time in technology). I had lunch with Rena Fallstrom from NetApp today and asked her what the impact was on NetApps business in Europe. Given the huge customer acquisition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu offer nice Dynamic Cube Blade Server</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/06/04/fujitsu-offer-nice-dynamic-cube-blade-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fujitsu just announced a new blade server system using a custom designed motherboard optimized for the form factor of the chassis so that they have been able to fit 18 blades with two CPUs each into a compact 10U package. This contrasts with the rather weak Cisco design that manages to fit all of 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage mindset in the Data Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/05/30/teenage-mindset-in-the-data-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading posts on my friend and colleague Steve Duplessie&#8217;s blog. Todays is exceptional. Steve has the rarest of talents, the ability to cut through the noise and get straight to the real issue. That&#8217;s why Enterprise Strategy Group is the best analyst firm in the world and has a client list that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defying the laws of Physics &#8211; being dumb in the data center</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/23/defying-the-laws-of-physics-being-dumb-in-the-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all trying to fix the unfixable in the Data Centre. How do we get more cooling capacity from sites we built a decade ago for low power density applications? One of the biggest problems is that everyone is trying to work against a basic law of physics; hot air rises, and cold air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French attempt to cut off Bit Torrent Pirates fails</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/12/french-attempt-to-cut-off-bit-torrent-pirates-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, France&#8217;s parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting Internet users if they download music or films illegally, with the ruling UMP party failing to turn out in force to approve the law. Backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s government, the legislation was meant to quell the flow of free songs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skype to break away from eBay?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/11/skype-to-break-away-from-ebay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters; the founders of Web telephone service Skype, currently owned by eBay Inc, are interested in bidding for the company they sold some four years ago, according to a media report.   Co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have contacted several private equity firms in order to make a bid for the company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Grid Hacked by China?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/09/power-grid-hacked-by-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters the power grid is vulnerable to potentially disabling computer attacks, while declining to comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fusion-io beats the credit crunch &#8211; proves that good businesses get funded</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/04/08/fusion-io-beats-the-credit-crunch-proves-that-good-businesses-get-funded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fusion-io announced today at SNW that it closed $47.5 million in Series B funding from a group of investors led by global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company also announced that David Bradford, a Novell Inc industry veteran, has been named CEO of Fusion-io, in Bradford’s last three years at Novell, he reported directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US makes a start on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/26/us-makes-a-start-on-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today that state supported and practical steps are being taken to train the young solar and wind power engineers of the future. The guys who install and maintain wind turbines and solar panels. In Tehachapi, California, it can feel like four seasons in one day. In this remote corner between the Sierra Nevada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internationally Recognized Educator Moves on</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/25/internationally-recognized-educator-moves-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/25/internationally-recognized-educator-moves-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurie O&#8217;Donnell (@laurieod) leaves LTS Scotland where he has worked as Director of Learning and Technology for eight years building the internationally recognized GLOW Schools Intranet. The Scotsman Newspaper reported that film maker George Lucas said to the US House of Representatives:  ‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not using DC Power in the Data Center is stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/03/17/why-not-using-dc-power-in-the-data-center-is-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I spoke to Ron Croce COO of Validus DC Systems about their unique approach to Data Center power provision. He and I both share strong backgrounds in power engineering and the certain knowledge that the way that data centers are powered today is fundamentally flawed. Today&#8217;s data centers take power from the grid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power struggle: What role should IT play in reining in energy costs?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/27/power-struggle-what-role-should-it-play-in-reining-in-energy-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like Twitter, I picked up that my friend Will Forest (@ayewill) of McKinsey &#38; Co is quoted in a Computerworld article offering a number of key pieces of advice: &#8220;Should CIOs get ready to add &#8220;energy czar&#8221; to their list of job roles? McKinsey &#38; Co., a management think tank, seems to believe as much.&#8221; Will issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Security Tips for Executives</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/18/simple-security-tips-for-executives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands: As more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Aisle goes live on Apple iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/15/the-hot-aisle-goes-live-on-apple-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Aisle is delighted to announce version 1.0 of it&#8217;s new Apple iPhone and iPod application.  Don’t expect a highly sophisticated experience as I set up this first version to be a basic newsfeed but would be delighted if you could submit comments and suggestions about what should be in version two. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Energy, High Performance Initial Results</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/12/low-energy-high-performance-initial-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/12/low-energy-high-performance-initial-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team have been working with Fusion-io this week on tuning the large data warehouse application that used to run like a dog. Initial results show that it is at least 18 times faster using the iDrives than a large and expensive EMC DMX4 array.]]></description>
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		<title>Low energy, high performance &#8211; how does that work?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/02/05/low-energy-high-performance-how-does-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking a solving some database performance issue recently particularly around a large SQL Server database that looked like it was going to need to move to a dedicated (and expensive) data warehouse platform to hit our challenging performance targets. I am just about to try an alternative hardware solution that has great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caltech adopts Hot Aisle Containment</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/28/caltech-adopts-hot-aisle-containment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Institute of Technology – also known as Caltech &#8212; is installing monitors and developing metrics to determine the efficiencies and savings of Hot Aisle Containment enclosures recently installed in one of their data centers.   The partitions and dividers were designed and manufactured by Simplex Isolation Systems of Fontana, CA, to isolate hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glasshouse Acquire Security Company CSSG</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/01/26/glasshouse-acquire-security-company-cssg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Framingham, Mass., – (January 26, 2009) – GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, today announced it has acquired Chicago-based security services consulting company CSSG. The acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into data security services, including assessments, optimization and policy framework development. As a result, GlassHouse customers will benefit from deeper infrastructure management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust the Government with my data? No way!</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/12/04/trust-the-government-with-my-data-no-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Techies Social (Networking) Inadequates?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/28/are-techies-social-networking-inadequates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the huge popularity of social and professional networking sites, nearly two thirds of techies (62.5%) haven’t – as yet – used these channels to find an IT job, according to research carried out by The IT Job Board,www.theitjobboard.co.uk The research also uncovered that more than half of those surveyed (57.4%) don’t currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spyware on Windows PCs delivers 500,000+ card accounts to Cyber Criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/16/spyware-on-windows-pcs-delivers-500000-card-accounts-to-cyber-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/16/spyware-on-windows-pcs-delivers-500000-card-accounts-to-cyber-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that a single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Leakage Report for October 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/11/11/data-leakage-report-for-october-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if it increasing awareness about personally identifiable data loss or we are just becoming more careless with personal data but the data loss diary for October 2008 is a real stinker. 10 October – Theft of an MOD laptop containing personal identifiers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, family details and medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey &#8211; Do IT Departments pay the Electricity Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/28/survey-do-it-departments-pay-the-electricity-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the largest Hot Aisle survey to date, 6273 readers participated, we asked &#8220;Does your IT Department pay the electricity bill for IT Equipment?&#8221; Despite best practice advice from industry heavyweights like Will Forest at McKinsey &#38; Company, more than half of polled readers answered no.  A staggering 23% just didn&#8217;t know if IT picked up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is your Carbon Footprint when using the Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much CO2 does one Google search produce? How much for one EBAY auction or for a SecondLife avatar, or running one blog like http://www.thehotaisle.com? How do our activities on the Internet compare to driving our car? The answers might surprise you&#8230;&#8230; Fellow blogger Rolf Kersten pulled together some quite surprising numbers: Web service CO2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is money to be had from trash</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/28/there-is-money-to-be-had-from-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I picked up an interesting article on the Executive Business Lifestyle website. (You have no idea the lengths that The Hot Aisle goes to in order to deliver interesting content!) Scouring through rubbish tips for reusable items and materials is nothing new. We see the practice on TV regularly, usually accompanied by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Center in a Tent?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/24/data-center-in-a-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting article from fellow blogger Christian Belady, who is Principal Power and Cooling Architect at Microsoft. Christian decided to take the PUE challenge and see if he could build a data center with a PUE of one! That is to have all of the power delivered to computing equipment and none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Tuesday 10th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/19/first-tuesday-10th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I first attended a First Tuesday event way back in 1999 when I was running a small startup software company in the telecommunications space. I remember lots of eager, young things desperately networking and looking for funding. First Tuesday is still going after 10 years, trying to help young companies and entrepreneurs network and raise capital. Unsurprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordys the fastest growing Business Process Management Suite vendor</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/16/cordys-the-fastest-growing-business-process-management-suite-vendor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue. The Gartner report states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interxion Secures Euro 135 Million Credit Facility</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/11/interxion-secures-euro-135-million-credit-facility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/11/interxion-secures-euro-135-million-credit-facility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrier neutral data center facilities still in expansion mode despite sub prime crisis.   *       Fortis and Rabobank are joined by ING in expanded credit facility *       Company announces H1 2008 results : 38% revenue growth and 33% adjusted EBITDA margins Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centers, today announced that it has obtained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did IBM Spend $300M on XIV?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/10/why-did-ibm-spend-300m-on-xiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[      I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM&#8217;s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Aisle Containment and Fire Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/08/hot-aisle-containment-and-fire-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we have been writing a lot about how hot-aisle/cold aisle containment. It is important to be aware this strategy, fire detection and protection requires special attention. A recent article in Search Data Center gives some good advice: Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment – a variation on the traditional data center best practice of hot-aisle/cold-aisle design – is a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many servers can you migrate in a weekend?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/how-many-servers-can-you-migrate-in-a-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/05/how-many-servers-can-you-migrate-in-a-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a question from a colleague Bill about data center migrations: What is a good range of number of servers that could be migrated over a weekend?    I know there a bunch of qualifiers (e.g. new kit versus “lift and shift”, amount of storage, etc.), but is there some type of answer you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businessweek likes GO-Tags</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/businessweek-likes-go-tags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I work in the banking sector, here is some of the cool stuff we have been doing at First Data. After Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought First Data for $26 billion last year in one of the largest LBOs ever, the firm approached Michael Capellas about taking the helm. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Sector Jobs remain static</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/09/01/it-sector-jobs-remain-static/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions.  Key findings are as follows: Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we protect data?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/how-do-we-protect-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/08/30/how-do-we-protect-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been catching up on press releases that have come in since I have been on holiday and picked up one from Secerno. Perimeter application firewall requirement leaves customer data vulnerable to growing insider threat, claims database security expert Secerno&#8217;s products are designed to protect the database by implementing a set of perimeter controls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeds and Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a protocol and method for delivering frequently changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs (such as The Hot Aisle) and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to subscribers. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows them to stay informed by retrieving the latest content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of an Era at VMWare</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/09/end-of-an-era-at-vmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow blogger Steve Duplessie at Steve&#8217;s IT Rants has picked up on the fact that Diane Green has left VMWare after a bad set of financial results. Steve writes a good article and it&#8217;s worth a read. Diane is a victim of heroism via unexpected consequences. Pretty much single handed VMWare has raised the CPE &#8211; Compute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techies are Leaders but need to watch their social skills?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/06/19/techies-are-leaders-but-need-to-watch-their-social-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Donnell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness &#8212; but low in modesty. Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) problem has a technology [...]]]></description>
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